The Big 12 has been the toughest league to win in men's college basketball.
The intensity of every conference game should continue into the Big 12 tournament in Kansas City, Missouri.
The Kansas Jayhawks emerged as the class of the conference. They enter Tuesday with a one-game edge on the Texas Longhorns for first place.
Texas, the Baylor Bears and Kansas State Wildcats are all within two games of Kansas in the Big 12 standings.
Kansas and the other top teams are locks to make the NCAA tournament, but the teams at the bottom of the standings will be fighting to be on the right side of the bubble with one or two big wins inside the T-Mobile Center.